By Arturo Pérez-Reverte
A provocative literary mystery that playfully can pay tribute to vintage stories of puzzle and adventure
Lucas Corso is a booklet detective, a middle-aged mercenary employed to seek down infrequent variations for filthy rich and unscrupulous consumers. whilst a widely known bibliophile is located lifeless, abandoning a part of the unique manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's the 3 Musketeers, Corso is introduced in to authenticate the fragment. he's quickly drawn right into a swirling plot related to satan worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do between a forged of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to these of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by way of a mysterious attractiveness named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris at the killer's path during this twisty highbrow romp throughout the ebook world.
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Cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-940866-60-9 (hard). ) 1. Mystery. 2. Rationalism. I. Title. V47 1997 230--dc21 96-49177 CIP Marketing and Distribution Fordham University Press University Box L Bronx NY 10458 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To my friend and former teacher, Lawrence F. Barmann Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1. Denial of Mystery 1 2. The Aesthetic Sense of Mystery 19 3. The Skeptical Sense of Mystery 45 4. The Sacral Sense of Mystery 67 5.
Religious thinkers might in fact conclude that the more we understand about the operation of the universe, the more fascinating does its very existence become, and see in the cosmic contingency implied thereby a basis for a religious experience of mystery in terms of transcendence. Or, it might also serve as a springboard for a pantheist or panentheist interpretation of the cosmos, and trigger a religious sense of mystery along immanentist lines. A second variation of the purely natural sense of mystery is taken up in Chapter Three and described along multiple lines of thought as a skeptical sense of mystery.
To that extent, their attitude actually involves a rejection of the sense of mystery as it is generally understood by religious people. Yet another, third possible variation of the purely natural sense of mystery is only hinted at in Chapters One and Four of this book. It is what I would call a paradoxical sense of mystery, and represents an attitude that was perhaps grounded in the dialectical thrust of Ludwig Feuerbach's anthropological/philosophical ruminations, and found clearest expression more recently in the thinking of "Death of God" 1 theologians like Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, whose "radicalization of the secular" would seem to involve so passionate a denial of mystery as almost to become a paradoxical reassertion of the same.